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"a lot of time to be inside this letterbox pushing midnight margins & listening intently to the patter pitter of run out reels demanding change a lot of time a lot of time down in the peanut gallery th..."

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"come           now                       could                                       how                                                   you                                                       ..."

"i been were                 mine right along w/them that are is were & always will theirs & they after                 one                         equinox i am are being be                         my ..."

"the whocars spin their prettywheels the whykids blow their nose the seeme dolls can't fix their ..."

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"except for the snowflakes & the fingertipsfingerprintsis nothing a difference discernablebut not two trees?  which turn oversticky fingertipped printed handsand beg porridge of the impossible supernov..."

"Frame:         lines smooth like overpriced caterers         taking the right things         to the right places         & always dodging just in time         height quite right         a ruler to mea..."

"so it was nighttime- that's where the beginnings end, swirl with the face of the moon on still waters & flee to become another day equine the girl's colt legs upon her shivering return the chrysalis ..."

"In your bedroom, we exchanged a thousand glances with a like number of eyes each mood had made us different, like swift rivers carving out a brand new course, and so we were never the same two twice. ..."

"livingis her breathing maskfor dying underwaterstripped of shamea breathing maskshe slippedand fell off the edge of the worldplumettingdowninto nowhere Written June 1st, 2001 © on Oct 12 2001 06:04 A..."

"when i was younger, i had so much to say about a world i knew nothing about. i've still a thing to say, but you can't hear me... ...i'm crouched down in a tunnel underground, a worm that consoles it..."

"i could have paved her streets in fine thin sheets of diamond weeping rainbows from face to face encased her worries & world-weary lack of levity in heaviest suits of gold sunk them deep in silent wa..."

"i thought of the nettles hiding from the moon in a night canopy, spreading themselves out to take in the rain. then i was lost in a blur of imagining, making believe that you were always mine & we w..."

"So many memories of you gone a cruel shade of forgotten from constant exposure to the killing rays of new experience in the gallery of my mind. Faded like the flowers you pressed in a book about..."

"now waiting at the door to a ghost lacerated by the grey speech of terrible and great infancy we cherish the sunset falling down the horizon like a curtain call our world is indeed a stage and meaning..."

"when i was young & blonde hair still clung to my head like a nimbus of american light my father lifted me up onto his shoulders shoulders that could have held jupiter and sent atlas into a cowering sh..."

"a cup of cofee wake me up take me up a couple copies of your picture of your scripture read the bible revival tent revival southern baptist southern cross rail crossing don't you cross me won't you c..."

"ten long years in a sweeping cascade catch me languishing in houses my grandfather would have laughed at with a catholic carpenter's laugh the predator still strides with vile inevitabilities dripping..."

"small wonder the sky's so jealous blushing neatly at its own dawn when the pastures below are able to march in such a neat formation of postage stamp green dinner plate trees all the way back to the s..."

"When the           ashes settled back into the ground & the people who were           hiding came back out into the light, there wasn't really anything left to           see.  A streetcorner fi..."

"I sleep now in these years of     feet dragging from echoes of the Atlantis           we were so           foolishly expecting, with the  covers pulled over my head.  Like a child's, my mind is open..."

"if the world were dying a little faster maybe than it already is and getting ready to sigh its last sigh like a child never getting what it wants until the feeling means nothing i'd want your hand in ..."

"sweet violet summer coming in off the horizon lifting the heads of forlorn lillies with the softest touch of breeze find them in their quiet garden shivering when the night crawls in on tired knees ..."

"listen little fairy i'll fly you off to the moon on dragon wings that beat the air like tattered insults and i'll nail your feet to the ground so you can never reach the water never touch the sunshine..."

"couldn't wait to get things started left the broken far behind wings flapping like the jaw of rusty scisors one last try at flying then abandoned on the ground the mirage fades swiftly between the rai..."

"in the night of a thousand wishes we crossed our fingers and wondered why nothing was happening when we looked up at the sky and prayed deeply like the souls of people who had passed on while the mus..."

"she wakes up from a dream that means nothing to her dim fragments of a life past she cannot ask us what it is that keeps the world held together and maybe she never thinks about it quite like that a..."